When I was on 56KB dialup, (a total of about a two year period from home, plus many years of using a company laptop, dialing in from all over the place), I considered a good connection anything from 44,000 to 48,000. I never got faster, though sometimes a stable 40,000 wasn't too bad if the alternative was a faster connect (like 48,000) but with frequent hangups. The speed you are quoting is not bad from my experience, though I do know people who always seem to hit the high-end even though I never did.

Thanks for the response and moving my post to the proper category Dan.

I was in the mid 30s on speed tests.

I've been checking out dialup accelerators for almost a week and that's why I asked about this.

For whatever reason connection speed is the "thing" that I got hooked on this week.

LWM.
That answers my question.
I think the rate that I got with NitroXP is the best that I can get with my ISP(41.64 hi end avg 40+).
It beats what I had.
DSL etc.. is super $$$ here and I figured if I can improve on what I have it would save me some cash.

Im in a sleepy off the beat coastal town and on dial up with 57k modem. I get 46667 at the mo . I changed ip companies a few weeks back because of the price diffirence . We now have some good compitition. It takes me a little longer to initially sign in when i first crank up the pc but there is no diffirence in usage of the net speed